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Trick Photography Effect: selected carde ais is photograph caused to vani vanish sh from thean. deck and very o f the magician. visual vis ually ly A reappe reappear ar inside insid magici Preparation You will need to get a card wallet. These are usually sold with packet tricks. Essentially, it is a plastic wallet with 2 sides with a plastic plastic see through window over each. You Y ou will will also need a fake membership card. The one I use is a piece o f cardboard cut out to the t he same shape and size as a po ker size playing playing card. card. Onto the left side o f the card I type my name, a fake serial no., an emergency phone no., and to top it off, in the upper left left comer I put my actual thumb print. (what a ham ) Next, you need to go to a photo booth and take 2 colour photos o f yourself (fig.l and 2)

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You will notice that fig I and 2 are exactly the same, except that fig 2 has a jumbo card in between t he hands. Now get the membershi membe rship p card and stick the photo phot o from fig fig no.2, the one on e with the jumbo card in it, onto the upper right comer o f the card. Have the card plasticized. Get some double sided tape and apply it around the white border o f the photo from fig.l, the one with nothing in the hands. hands. Tape this photo phot o to the underside o f he plastic plastic window in the wallet in the position where the membership membership card photo phot o would be if it were inserted into the window. Now place the laminated laminated

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o f yourself with looks like membership card with a picture nothing in ayour hands. (fig.4) Put the wallet into y our pocket your pocke t and you are set to go. Method Force the card you have in the photo on a volunteer.

Control the card to 8th from from the bott om o f the deck. Tum the deck face up and biddle count five cards into your left hand. Ask the spectator if their card is amongst the five They will say no. Place these these cards onto the bottom o f the deck and biddle count five other oth er cards into your yo ur left hand. hand. This time the third card car d you pull off the deck will will be the selectio selection. n. Hold H old a pinky break under this

 

card. Without breaking the rhythm o f the count, pull the fourth card off the deck onto o nto t he small small packet packet,, bu t as you do secr secretly etly steal back the third card (selection) onto the bottom o f the th e deck. Count the last (fifth) (fifth) card onto the packet and hand th thee packet o f 5 cards (really 4) to the spectator. Explain that you can find their selected card because you are an official member o f the card shark club. club. To prov p rovee tthis, his, bring out you card wallet and display display your card shark mem membershi bership p card through throug h the window o f the wallet. wallet. (fig.4) Point Point out o ut to the spectators that your hands are in the official offic ial ma magicians gicians mysterious position. This points out o ut to the spectator that y our hands are empty empty without making it too obvious. Take hold o f the card as in (fig.5). Your fingers go underneath the o fth

card and your thumb is on top plastic window perfectly perfectly covering the area in between your yo ur hands. Yo You u will will no w pull pull the card from the window. At the same time turning the window o f the wallet towards yourself, so that the picture which remains in the wallet is hidden from the spectators view. Note, that the right thumb remains in the same position on the new photo. ie; in between the photographed hands (fig.6). (fig.6). From Fro m the spectators point o f view you have merely removed the membership card from your wallet. In reality however, you have switched the photo with empty hands for the one with the force card in it it.. The spectator spect ator is unaware of this fact because your thumb is covering the card. Il that remains is to simply throw the membership card onto the packet o f 5 cards and the force card seems to visually appear on the picture. Have the

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